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A small East Bay water district is paying more than 200 of their employees, including meter readers and customer service representatives, wages and benefits worth well over $100,000, while raising customers' rates 16 years in a row.
Governor Jerry Brown wants California to slash its carbon footprint even more quickly than is already called for in the continent's most ambitious climate change law.
Superintendent Richard Carranza asked the school board permission to hire more uncredentialed teachers from Teach for America, a non-profit that puts college grads in classrooms across the country.
Students and residents were circulating a petition on Change.Org to block the construction of an 18-story high-rise in Downtown Berkeley because it would obstruct "cherished" views of the Golden Gate Bridge from Campanile Way.
The executive order is the most aggressive benchmark in North America and is line with those of leading international governments, including the European Union.
Bay Area residents are facing steep water rate hikes as California's drought stretches into a fourth year. In one small East Bay water district, a resident said it's the lavish spending habits of an old boy's network that is making their bill go up.
Neighbors in Palo Alto say houses are getting bought up by foreign investors who never move in, leaving neighborhoods full of empty homes.
A Contra Costa County fire protection district is preparing to close two stations and make service cuts following the failure of a measure that would have raised more than $4 million a year for the next five years, officials said Tuesday.
Thousands of gallons of water are going down the drain in Palo Alto, and the city has no way to stop it.
Governor Jerry Brown met with most of California's big city mayors Tuesday to discuss the drought in the State Capitol and to announce a plan to slap water wasters with much stiffer fines.
Maybe it's the abundance of amazing Sunday restaurant brunches, or the fact that people just can't find a parking spot, but the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose region is the least church going population in America, and also the most likely to have been to church and then decided not to go back.
For years now San Jose police officers have had to rely on an outdated laptop computer system in their patrol cars, but they won't have to put up with them much longer, thanks to a $1.6 million grant that the department received from the state.
San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener is hoping to get approval to create a task force to help plan local policies if cannabis is legalized in the 2016 California election.
Both sides argued their case to the U.S. Supreme Court on the gay-marriage restrictions in four states on Tuesday. The final ruling in the case could legalize same-sex marriage nationwide.
Listen to Tuesday's historic arguments on same-sex marriage before the Supreme Court in the case of Obergefell v. Hodges.
